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Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 625: What Is a Movie? Five Feet Apart: I Can’t Hide the Tears but I Don’t Care, by David Bax Ash Is Purest White: Known...

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies they’ve been watching, including: CUBA AND THE CAMERAMANNOTHING BAD CAN HAPPENCOLD PURSUITASH IS PUREST WHITEFIGHTING WITH MY FAMILYFIVE FEET APARTBREATHLESSSECRET SUNSHINE

In the opening scene of Justin Baldoni’s Five Feet Apart, a teenager, Stella (Haley Lu Richardson), helps two of her friends select outfits for their upcoming trip. The three girls joke around, offer each other words of support and check...

Squint just a bit and The Hummingbird Project—the new film from Kim Nguyen—looks an awful lot like David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network. Both films share Jesse Eisngberg as a lead, playing a confident neurotic who wades into murky...

Finding Steve McQueen feels like a piece of music where everyone is playing the right notes but you just don’t like the tune. The film is well made, the acting is mostly good, the script is funny in places but...

Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhangke’s massively stunning, bittersweet new film, takes place over the course of roughly seventeen years, covering most of the twenty-first century so far. There’s a subtle running joke in which each chronological leap ahead is...

One of the more difficult things to accomplish in film is to make a viewer feel the climate, temperature or weather conditions inhabited by the characters. We tend to watch movies while seated comfortably in climate-controlled rooms. The last thing...

Shout! Factory, home to many lovingly-crafted horror blu-rays under their Scream Factory imprint, is lately turning their attention to some of Universal’s goofier sci-fi/horror B-films of the 50s. There are few goofier than 1957’s The Deadly Mantis, in which a...

When a movie about an ancient race of humans and devolved mole people living miles underground begins with a lecture about the earth’s core from a professor of English, of all things, you may briefly assume that the film is...